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The Strategist in Brief: September 17, 2026 · The Strategy Catalyst Dispatch

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  This is the Strategist in Brief for September seventeenth, twenty twenty-six, your quick audio rundown of the top headlines from Strategy Catalyst's newsletter.
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  Here's what strategy leaders should know this week.
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  We asked a half dozen health system strategy leaders how their teams use generative AI for strategic planning work.
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  Information gathering is a top use case.
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  Some strategy teams use AI to size up markets faster, build competitor and hospital profiles, and reach a point of view on acquisition targets.
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  Several teams use AI to create finished deliverables, but verification and cleanup work can be time-intensive.
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  Some teams are forced to stick with organizationally sanctioned AI tools that are clunkier than popular consumer tools like ChatGPT and Claude, which slows adoption.
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  At a recent roundtable discussion hosted by Strategy Catalyst, health system strategy leaders discussed different approaches to physician alignment and growth.
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  Many health systems employ multiple alignment strategies at the same time.
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  The right model can vary by market or service line.
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  Health systems are facing pressure from rising costs for hospital-based specialties and competition from private equity.
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  This week's featured graphic looks at average CEO tenures across different industries based on data from Chris Coulter Associates.
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  Healthcare is middle of the pack with an average tenure of six point four years.
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  A separate survey of health system CEOs specifically by the consultancy SullivanCotter found an average tenure of just over seven years.
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  Be sure to check out the full newsletter to see the graphic.
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  And finally, this week's lead news flash, Johnson Johnson will require three forty b providers to submit claims data to receive discounts following in the footsteps of Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk.
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  That concludes this week's edition.
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  Be sure to check out the full version on the web at hmacademy.com.
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  Thanks for listening.